Using FrontPage

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PLEASE NOTE: If you have requested FrontPage Extensions when your account was setup you should read the information below carefully!

FrontPage Extensions are 'WebBots' which provide the server side implementation of FrontPage and are the mechanism for invoking many of the interactive features built into the program.

FrontPage communicates with the extensions via HTTP via a Remote Procedure Call (RPC). When the server sees the 'POST' request addressed to the FrontPage server extensions it redirects the request to the appropriate 'WebBot'.

IMPORTANT: If you use FrontPage extensions on your virtual server you MUST only use FTP to upload scripts to the CGI directory. Do not use FTP to upload your website.

To publish your Web Site using FrontPage:

Get an open connection to the internet via your ISP.
Open FrontPage
Open your FrontPage web
Click the 'File' menu button, and choose 'Publish Web'
Enter your web address as www.<yourdomain>.com/web, etc. and click 'OK' (or www.<yourname>/ ~<username> to publish to your personal web if set up through the Administrators control panel).
If you want to only send pages that have changed since your last update, check the 'publish changed pages only' box.
FrontPage will now contact the server.
Enter your username and password - same as for accessing the Control Panel.
FrontPage will now publish your site to the web.

IMPORTANT: The initial directory you see upon logging in via FTP is your personal directory; this directory path is: /users/yourusername/
If you upload files to: /users/yourusername/web, you will access information stored there via: http://www.yourdomain.com/~yourusername.

To upload files to your main site, you need to go up two levels in order to reach the main directory; the main directory path is: /web
If you upload files to /web, you will access information stored there via: http://www.yourdomain.com/

Since FrontPage was created for developing web sites in the Windows environment, some features may not be currently available on our Linux servers.

For FrontPage and FrontPage web information and technical support, please use the links at the top of the page.